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Journal of the Rev. Rowland Davies, Dean of Cork
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page 1 note a It is probable that Minehead was formerly much used as a port of communication with Ireland; for Leland, writing of it in the reign of Henry VIII. says, “The towne is exceeding full of Irische menne.”
page 1 note b Richard Slocomb was subsequently one of the Sheriffs of Cork, in 1692.
page 2 note a Richard Boyle, second Earl of Cork, created Earl of Burlington 1664, and died 1697.
page 2 note b Sir Thomas Southwell, of Castle Mattrass, co. Limerick, Baronet, afterwards, in 1717, created Baron Southwell of that place: grandfather of the first Viscount Southwell. Sir Thomas was, with about one hundred other Protestants, sentenced to death at Galway in March 1688–9. King James being prevailed on to grant him a pardon, was informed by his Irish attorney-general, Sir Richard Nagle, that it was out of his power to do so, as by the Act of Attainder lately passed he was debarred from the prerogative of mercy. Thus was he, to his great astonishment, told by Irish Roman Catholics as well as English Protestants, that he was not above the law. He was so overcome by grief and passion on this occasion, that he locked himself up in his closet. However, he persisted in granting the pardon, and Sir Thomas was released.
page 2 note c Mary, daughter of Richard Sackville, Earl of Dorset, and wife of Roger Boyle, second Earl of Orrery.
page 2 note d Dr Parr was an Irishman by birth, and had been Chaplain to Archbishop Usher, whose Life he published in 1666. He had at the present date been vicar of Camberwell for thirty-six years, and previously of Ryegate, having married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Roger James of Ryegate, and widow of Henry Moyse, esq. of Banstead. Dr. Parr was born at Fermoy, co. Cork, in 1617, the son of the Rev. Richard Parr, a Devonian,—the same, it has been supposed, who died Bishop of Man in 1643. He entered at Exeter college, Oxford, in 1635 ; was made a canon of Armagh by Usher, and is said to have refused the deanery of Armagh, and even an Irish bishopric. It was in 1644 that he became vicar of Ryegate, in 1653 of Camberwell, and in 1654 rector of Bermondsey, which he held until 1683. At Camberwell, says Anthony à Wood, “he broke two conventicles in his neighbourhood, by his outvying the Presbyterians and Independents in his extemporaneous preaching.” He died in 1691, and was there buried November 6, “in his vault in ye churchyard.” (Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, iii. 167.) Further particulars of him, and his literary works, will be found in the Athenæ Oxonienses, (edit. Bliss,) iv. 341, and the History of Surrey, i. 323.
page 2 note e William Moreton, D. D., born at Chester, came to Ireland as chaplain to the Earl of Oxford, and afterwards to the Duke of Ormonde : he was raised to the see in 1681, but was deprived by King James, reinstated under William and Mary, and made one of the commissioners of the great seal by Queen Anne. He was subsequently translated to Meath. He died in Dublin, Nov. 21, 1715, and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral.
page 3 note a John Pooley, a native of Ipswich in Suffolk, Dean of Ossory, was raised to the bishoprick of Cloyne in 1697, and in 1702 was translated to Raphoe. He died Oct. 16, 1712, and was buried in St. Michael's church, Dublin. The inscription on his monument is given in Ware's Bishops, p. 282.
page 3 note b Dr. Henry Compton, translated from Oxford 1675, died 1713.
page 3 note c Thomas Cokeley, M. A. was admitted to the prebend of Cahirultan, diocese of Cloyne, September 9, 1682.
page 3 note d Afterwards called “brother Matthew:” see note hereafter, in p. 8.
page 3 note e James Butler, second Duke of Ormonde, on the death of his father, July 21,1688 : elected Knight of the Garter 28 September following, and installed 5 April, 1689.
page 3 note f The Rev. Barry Love probably left Ireland for England with Mr. Davies, and for the same cause. He, at the suggestion of his friend, succeeded him in the lectureship at Yarmouth in 1690, and so pleased the corporation, that in the following year they appointed him to the incumbency of the parish, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Luke Milbourne. He married 1st, Anne, widow of George Ward, esq. of Great Yarmouth, and 2dly, Mary, relict of the Rev. William Peters of Weeting in Norfolk. His son, Barry Love, esq., was mayor of Yarmouth in 1734. John Gosling Love, esq. the incumbent's grandson, was mayor in 1763. His son, the Rev. John Love, was for forty-six years rector of Somerleyton and Blundeston in Suffolk, which livings are now held by his son the Rev. Edward Missenden Love. It appears from the Registry of Trin. coll. Dublin, that Barry Love, son of John, seventeen years of age, and born in the co. of Cork, matriculated May 4, 1680. Samuel Love was mayor of Cork in 1695. The family had good estates in the county of Cork. Their seat was at Castle Saffron, near Doneraile. But the property has passed from the male line to the Vincents of Limerick.
page 3 note g Sir Jonathan Trelawney, Bart. translated from Bristol to Exeter 13 April, 1689; afterwards, in 1707, Bishop of Winchester.
page 4 note a William Howell was Sheriff of Cork, 1679, Mayor 1693. But the Howells seem to have been a different family from the Hovels, whose seat was at Mount Hovel near Cork. Smith, (in his History of Kerry,) says that John Hovel, an Alderman of Cork, wrote, but without putting his name to it, “A Discourse on the Woollen Manufactory of Ireland and the consequences of prohibiting its Exportation. Dublin, 1698.” 4to. But we find no Alderman of this name; perhaps William Howell was the person.
page 4 note b John Hawkins was Sheriff in 1666, and Mayor of Cork in 1672.
page 4 note c Roger James esquire, of Ryegate, M.P. for that town. He was brother to the late Mrs. Parr, who had died on the 13th Nov. 1688. (Collect. Topog. et Geneal. iii. 167.)
page 4 note d The Bowyers were one of the principal families of Camberwell throughout the seventeenth century. Anthony Bowyer, esq. the head of the house at this date, was the son and heir of Sir Edmund Bowyer. He married Katharine, the daughter of Henry St. John, esq. of Beckenham, and died in 1709. In his epitaph in Camberwell church he is characterised as “a gentleman generally esteemed in his life-time, and universally well read, especially in the laws and constitution of his country, which gave him an aversion to tyranny and anarchy: he did justice, showed mercy, and was a friend to the poor.”
page 4 note e Richard Lower, M.D. a very celebrated physician in London. He died in 1691, aged 55.
page 4 note f Martin Lister, M.D., afterwards physician to Queen Anne; died 1712, aged 74.
page 4 note g Ja. Molinæus, M.D. Cantab, comitiis Regiis, 1682.
page 4 note h Martha, widow of Captain Robert Stannard, and mother of the journalist's wife, was married to Sir Richard Aldworth of Newmarket, co. Cork, and had issue a son, Boyle Aldworth. “Sister Aldworth” appears to have been the wife of this gentleman: whose grandson assumed the surname of St. Leger, and was created Viscount Doneraile.
page 5 note a Colonel Samuel Morrice married Elizabeth, sister of the first Lord Southwell, mentioned in the note, p. 2. Smith, in his History of Kerry, gives an account of this family of Morrice.
page 5 note b The Hon. Richard Boyle and Sir Henry Tynte, Knt. of Roxhall, represented Cork in the Irish Parliament in 1661.
page 5 note c Owen Silver held some office in the customs at Youghal.
page 5 note d Thomas Causabon occurs as bailiff of Youghal in 1671 and 1672: and he is elsewhere designated Captain. The family of Causabon were afterwards of Carrig near Mallow: the last of the name married a daughter of Chief Justice Rogerson, which lady was remarried to Sir James Cotter, Bart.
page 5 note e Elizabeth, daughter of Algernon, Earl of Northumberland, and widow of Arthur Capel, first Earl of Essex, who died in 1683, having been Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1672 to 1677.
page 5 note f Narcissus Marsh, D.D. a native of Hannington in Wiltshire, was through the interest of the Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant, made Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1678, and was promoted to these sees Feb. 27, 1682. In 1690 he was translated to Cashel, afterwards to Dublin, and finally to the primacy. For some of the indignities and dangers to which he was exposed during King James's reign, as appears from his Diary, see British Magazine of 1835, and Irish Ecclesiastical Journal, April, 1848. A fulllength portrait of him is preserved in Exeter college, Oxford. (Cotton's Fasti.)
page 6 note a M. Boileau, who with Lord Clare was Governor of Cork. He was supposed to have sent off for France, to the value of 30,000l. in money, leather, and other commodities, the spoils of the Protestants of this rich city. (King's State.)
page 7 note a Lady Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of Robert second Earl of Sunderland, was wife of Donough M'Carthy, fourth Earl of Clancarty. He had been educated in England, under the charge of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and at the University of Oxford ; and was under sixteen when his marriage was arranged by his uncle Justin M'Carthy. Having been sent to Ireland, he continued a Protestant until the coming of King James, and then turned to mass. (Smith's Kerry, vol. i, p. 175.)
page 7 note b John Vesey, D.D. Bishop of Limerick 1672, Archbishop of Tuam 1678; died 1716.
page 7 note c William Sheridan, D.D., born in the county of Cavan. He was chaplain to Sir Maurice Eustace, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, and afterwards to James Duke of Ormonde. He was deprived, 3 William and Mary, for refusing to take the oath to those princes. After this he lived many years in London, and his house was resorted to by Nonjurors.
page 8 note a Mr. Evelyn, in his Diary, has recorded one visit paid to Dr. Parr at Camberwell, on the 18th Apri 1686, and the conversation that took place on Archbishop Usher's letters. Diary, edit. 1827, iii. 206.
page 8 note b George Matthew, esquire, of Thurles, married Mary Aldworth, sister to Boyle Aldworth (see p. 4), and half-sister to the journalist. This gentleman, therefore, must have been “brother Matthew.” (Lodge, in his account of the Viscounts Doneraile, states that the above Mary Aldworth married Simon, son of Sir Simon Eaton, Knt. and had issue Martha, the wife of George Matthew, but this is an error.) George Matthew appears to have been a Roman Catholic. His daughter Margaret was married to James Cotter, esq. son of Sir James Cotter, Knt. the noted adherent of the House of Stuart. Mr. Cotter was also known to be a violent partisan on the same side. Nevertheless Dean Davies addressed to him some kind letters, which are still or were lately extant. His son was bred a Protestant, and created a Baronet.
page 9 note a This expression, “English gentlemen,” includes the Irish Protestants. A list of these persons, with the amount of their estates, is in the library of Dublin college. It was doubtless compiled from the entries here alluded to, the originals of which are perhaps lost.
page 9 note b Charles tenth Earl of Shrewsbury; created Duke of Shrewsbury in 1694, and died 1718.
page 9 note c Arthur Herbert, created Baron of Torbay and Earl of Torrington May 29, 1689 ; he died, without issue, in 1716.
page 9 note d Lady Elizabeth Butler, sister to the Duke of Ormonde, and wife of William-Richard-George ninth Earl of Derby.
page 9 note e Edward Fowler, M.A., presented by Archbishop Sheldon to the rectory of Allhallows Bread-Street in 1673 ; and by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's to the vicarage of St. Giles's Cripplegate in 1681.
page 10 note a John Tillotson, D.D., subsequently Archbishop of Canterbury, was at this date Dean of Canterbury, from which he was moved to St. Paul's in October following. He had held the Tuesday Lectureship of St. Laurence Jewry from the year 1664.
page 10 note b Perhaps William Hull, who was Sheriff of Cork 1674. He was the son of Henry Hull, of Clonakilty, and nephew to Sir William Hull, of Lemcon, co. Cork.
page 11 note a The eldest son of Sir St. John Brodriek (noticed hereafter), and brother to the first Viscount Midleton. He became a privy-councillor to King William; M.P. for the county of Cork, 1703 ; and died in 1730, aged 77.
page 11 note b “Mr. Flamsted, the learned astrologer and mathematician, whom His Majesty had established in the new Observatory in Greenwich Park : furnished with the choicest instruments : an honest, sincere man.” Evelyn's Diary, Sept. 10, 1676.
page 12 note a The Travers family, originally of Yorkshire, settled in Ireland temp. Queen Elizabeth, and became of considerable influence in the county of Cork. The present Rear-Admiral Sir Eaton Stannard Travers, K.H. of Great Yarmouth, and the late Major James Travers of the Rifle Brigade (brothers of the late Major-General Sir Robert Travers), married the two daughters of the late William Steward, esq. of Great Yarmouth, who was the eldest son of Timothy Steward of Great Yarmouth, by Mary, daughter of Ambrose Palmer of Great Yarmouth.
page 13 note a The plate was lent to them for the festival. This custom is represented in some old prints, of which there are copies in Hone's Every Day Book.
page 13 note b Sir Arthur Jones was prohably of the Ranelagh family, for Arthur Jones, second Viscount Ranelagh, married Catherine Boyle, daughter of the first Earl of Cork, and a relation of the Journalist's wife.
page 13 note c Sir Emanuel Moore, Bart, married Martha, daughter of William Hull, Esq. of Lemcon in the county of Cork, (and sister to Sir Richard Hull, a Justice of the Common Pleas,) by his wife Jane, daughter of Richard Boyle, Archbishop of Tuam, great-grandfather to the Journalist's wife.
page 13 note d In the precincts of Westminster Hall there was a place so called. See Smith's Antiquities of Westminster.
page 14 note a Mayor of Cork in 1669, and ancestor of the noble family of Muskerry. At this time he was a Knight, but in 1709 was created a Baronet.
page 14 note b The Wakehams were a respectable Protestant family, from whom the Pynes of Ballyvolane (who have assumed that name) are descendants in the male line. Sir Richard Pyne was Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and his grand-daughter and co-heiress married Sir Henry Cavendish, Bart. Perhaps it was her sister who carried the estates to the Wakeham family.
page 14 note c The Journalist had not yet learned its proper name, Afterwards he designated it correctly.
page 14 note d This probably means the old house of the late Sir Edmund Bowyer (who died 1680–1), situated in the road from London to Camberwell, and which was restored a few years since for Sir John Smijth, Bart, the representative of the Bowyer family. A view showing some of its original and some of its later features will be found in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1825, vol. xcv. ii. 585. The Bowyers, at the time of this Journal, had another mansion on Camberwell Green, on a site now occupied by the Charity Schools (Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, iii. 153), the “fine house and gardens” mentioned in p. 9; and Mr. Bowyer, already noticed in p. 4, would be there resident.
page note 15 a This motto, allusive to the great deliverer King William, was adopted by the call of Serjeants made in the first year of his reign.
page 15 note b Edmond Knapp was sheriff of the city of Cork in 1695, and mayor in 1703, and in 1715 returned as M.P. for Cork.
page 16 note a The Bishop of Ely was Francis Turner, deprived as a non-juror 1 Feh. 1690.
page 16 note b At Holland House, Kensington. Daniel Finch, second Earl of Nottingham, married for his first wife Essex, daughter and coheir of Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick and Holland.
page 17 note a See the note on his wife Lady Mary in p. 59.
page 17 note b Sir Jonathan Trelawney, Bart, lately translated from Bristol.
page 18 note a Denny Muschamp, of Horsley in Surrey, Muster-Master-general of Ireland, married Elizabeth, daughter of Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh, son of the beforementioned Richard Archbishop of Tuam, (p. 13), and therefore a relation of the Journalist's wife. His only daughter Mary was married to Sir Thomas Vesey, the first baronet (eldest son of John Vesey, D.D. Archbishop of Tuam), and was mother of John Denny Vesey, first Lord Knapton.
page 19 note a An untrue report.
page 19 note b The rectory of St. Stephen's Walbrook became vacant by the death of Robert Marriott, M.A. who was also Rector of St. Paul, Shadwell. William Stonestreet, M.A., was presented to the living by the Wardens and Company of the mystery of Grocers, and instituted on the 12th November, 1689.
page 20 note a Sir John Cutler, one of the richest citizens of his time, and the object of unmerited satire in Pope's Epistle on the use of Riches. He was created a baronet in 1660, and died in 1693, aged eighty-five, having been four times master-warden of the Grocers’ Company, who still preserve his statue in their hall. See a memoir of him in Heath's Account of the Company of Grocers, second edit. 1854, p. 298.
page 20 note b Gregory Hascard, S.T.P., Dean of Windsor (1684), was instituted to the rectory of St. Clement Danes, on the presentation of Sir Vere Fane, K.B. Sept. 18, 1678. He died in 1708.
page 20 note c John Horden, M.A., was instituted to the rectory of St. Michael, Queenhithe (then resigned by the above Dr. Haseard), May 5, 1671 ; and to the vicarage of Isleworth, Middlesex, April 16,1681. He died holding both those livings in 1690.
page 21 note a Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir John Cutler, Knt. married to Charles Bodville Robartes, second Earl of Radnor, who died s. p. in 1723.
page 21 note b The aldermen of Cork consisted until recently of those who had served the office of mayor. George Rogers was never mayor ; his brother Robert was. A pedigree of their family will be found in Burke's History of the Landed Gentry.
page 21 note e Second son of Sir St.John Brodrick (p. 29). He became a Serjeant-at-law, 1690–1; Solicitor-general for Ireland, 1695; M.P. for the county of Cork, and Speaker, 1703; Attorney.general, 1707; Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, 1709–10; Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1714; Baron Brodrick of Midleton, 1715; Viscount Midleton, 1717; died 1728. His first wife was sister of Anne Hartwell, mentioned hereafter, note c, p. 24.
page 22 note a Henry Compton, D.D.
page 22 note b The vicarage of Furneux Pelham was vacant by the death of Jonathan Maynard : and the patronage belonged to the Treasurer of the church of St. Paul, who eventually presented John Reynolds, B.A.: he was instituted on the 5th Aug. 1689, and the Journalist was consequently disappointed (see p. 28). Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, iii. 455.
page 22 note c Richard Newcourt, the author of that laborious and very valuable work, the Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Londinense, 2 vols. folio, 1708,1710. He was, as its title-page states, “Principal Registrar of the said Diocese for near twenty-seven years.”
page 22 note d Edward Stillingfleet, D.D. had been Dean of St. Paul's from Jan. 1677; but soon after the date in the text was promoted in Oct. 1689 to the bishopric of Worcester.
page 23 note a No doubt Kneller, afterwards Sir Godfrey. Dallaway says, that his equestrian portrait of the Duke of Schomberg, now in the possession of the Marquess of Lothian at Newbottle Abbey, is his best picture in that style. Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, edit. 1827, iii. 235.
page 23 note b In November, 1689, Dr. Sharp was made Dean of Canterbury on the removal of Dr. Tillotson to the deanery of St. Paul's, and on the 5th of July, 1691, he was consecrated Archbishop of York. He was educated at Christ's college, Cambridge, was chaplain to the Lord Keeper Pinch, and in 1672 Archdeacon of Berks. In 1675 he held the rectory of St. Bartholomew by the Exchange, which he shortly afterwards relinquished for the rectory of St. Martin's in the Fields.
page 23 note c George England, esq. eldest son of Sir George England, of Great Yarmouth, Knt., was Recorder of that borough, and represented the town in Parliament from 1680 to 1700, being a Member of the Convention Parliament of 1688. Sir George had a grant of arms, Gules, three lions passant in pale argent, each charged on the shculder with an erminespot. This family, which for a long time had considerable influence in the borough of Great Yarmouth, is now extinct. See Palmer's Continuation of Manship's History of Yarmouth, p. 308.
page 24 note a Samuel Puller, esq. represented the town of Yarmouth in the Convention Parliament, and was returned in 1690,1695, and 1700. He was bailiff in 1679 and 1698, and died in 1721, aged 75. “Egregia ubique justiciæ, prudentiæ, pietatis monumenta reliquit,” as his epitaph in St. Nicholas’ church records. His son, Kichard Fuller, contested the representation of the borough, unsuccessfully, in 1741, 1754, and 1756, with the Townshend and Walpole families. See Palmer's Supplement, p. 311.
page 24 note b Nicholas Lysaght commanded a troop at the battle of the Boyne. His eldest son, John Lysaght, was created Lord Lisle. His father, John Lysaght, served under the celebrated Lord Inchiquin as a cornet of horse, and probably came from the county of Clare, where the name of Lysaght is prevalent, and where the family of Inchiquin resided.
page 24 note c Probably the Rev. William Jephson, who was made Dean of Kilmore in 1690. He married Anne, widow of Captain Samuel Hartwell, who was killed at the battle of Landen in 1693. Her descendants by both marriages have been raised to the dignity of Baronet. The published pedigree makes him son of Major-General Jephson; but this is contradicted by the pedigree of Sir Denham Norreys, and it is much more likely that he was son of John Jephson, brother of the Major-General, which John married Bridget Boyle, daughter of the Archbishop of Tuam, and therefore a relation of the Journalist's wife.
page 24 note d Circe, a tragedy, the only dramatic production of Charles Davenant, LL.D. the eldest son of Sir William ; written when he was nineteen, in 1675.
page 25 note a Sir John Dillon married Mary, daughter of Murrough Boyle, Viscount Blessington, grandson of Richard Boyle, Archbishop of Tuam, who was ancestor of the Journalist's wife. The great estates of the Blessington family eventually descended to Sir John's grandson, Charles Dunbar, esq. who, dying without issue in 1778, bequeathed them to the next representatives of Archbishop Boyle. Among these estates was the site of the abbey of Augustinian monks in the city of Cork, through which passes a street called Dunbar Street, from the name of the former possessor.
page 25 note b Perhaps John Ormsby, who married Mary, daughter of Duncan Cummin, M.D., and who (or whose wife) was testamentary heir to John Fitzgerald of Park Prospect, in the county of Cork, esquire, grandson of Richard Fitzgerald, who died about 1674, and who, we may conjecture, was son of John Fitzgerald, Dean of Cork, who died in 1641, by his wife Catharine, daughter of Richard, Archbishop of Tuam, and therefore connected with Dean Davies's wife.
page 27 note a William Lloyd, consecrated Bishop of Landaff 1675, translated to Peterborough 1679, and to Norwich 1685; deprived as a non-juror in 1691.
page 27 note b Richard Chiswell, the publisher of Bishop Burnet's History of the Reformation, and other important works, of which a list is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. liv. p. 179. John Dunton said of him, “Mr. Richard Chiswell well deserves the title of Metropolitan Bookseller of England, if not of all the world.” See further in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. iii. p. 610.
page 28 note a The Green Dragon still remains much in the same state as when the Journalist visited it, and it is still frequented by Yarmouth people.
page 28 note b Benjamin England, esq. third son of Sir George England. He was bailiff in 1676, 1689, and 1697; mayor in 1703. He succeeded his brother in the representation of the borough, and sat till 1705. “His affection to it, and his just and generous temper, were known to most, and will be exceeded by few.”—Epitaph in St. Nicholas'Church. He died 30 April, 1711.
page 28 note c Sir St.John Brodrick was the grandson of William Brodrick, citizen of London, and lord of the manor of Garrett in the parish of Wandsworth. He was born in 1627; in 1653 he had grant of divers lands in the county of Cork, where he built the church at Midleton, In 1660 he was M.P. for Kingsale. He died in 1711, and was buried at Wandsworth. He was younger brother to Sir Alan Brodrick, who was Surveyor-General of Ireland, and died in 1680 ; and father of Lord Chancellor Brodrick, Viscount Midleton, noticed in p. 11.
page 29 note a The mention of both Mr. Stern and Mrs. Baily in this sentence, suggests that the former was Mr. (afterwards Major-General) Robert Stearne, whose wife was sister of Mrs. Bayly. A MS. history of his regiment (the First, or Royal Regiment of Ireland), by General Stearne, was lately sold in London among the collections of Sir William Betham. It comprises the period from 1678 to 1712. The owner of this Journal possesses also a MS. narrative, by General Stearne, of Queen Anne's wars in Flanders. About the year 1830 a large collection of tracts and pamphlets which belonged to the General, and which is said to have amounted to the number of 300 volumes, was sold and scattered in Cork; we have since heard of about one hundred volumes of them in ascertained hands. It appears from another MS. that he took much interest in astronomy and astrology. Beatson, in his Political Index, calls him “Richard,” and places him among the Brigadier-Generals; but he was a Major-General in 1730, and, from his being called “the Right Hon. General Stearne” in a list of subscribers to Dawson's translation of Demosthenes in 1732, the year of his death, it may be supposed that he was a privycouncillor. In Burke's History of the Commoners, in the pedigree of Tighe, he is assumed to be brother of Bishop Stearne, but this is a mistake. A niece of General Stearne's wife married the Rev. Boyle Davies, a son of the Dean, which accounts for the General's manuscript being in the same hands as the Journal. This Mrs. Davies had a brother who was in some sort a cause of England's supremacy in India: for he furnished his brother-in-law, Mr. (afterwards Sir) Eyre Coote, with pecuniary means for obtaining reinstatement in the army after he had been deprived of his commission for apparent cowardice at the battle of Preston Pans. Very few particulars of this great man's life are known to the public except his military career. Some of his private letters, however, have been preserved. From one of these we learn that in the war of the American Revolution he strongly disapproved of concessions to the insurgents. The letter is without date, but the time may perhaps he ascertained, for it was just after some election to a seat in Parliament for which Sir Eyre was a candidate, and before the spring of the year in which his regiment was to be “on Dublin duty.” His words are, “I do not know how the trading people in Cork are affected by the American disturbances, but here it occasions no small bustle; but I hope we shall have firmness sufficient to preserve the superiority of this country over them.” It may perhaps be a question whether the Americans would have succeeded in throwing off the yoke of the mother country if Sir Eyre had commanded against them.
page 30 note a Thus at this time it took two entire days to perform the journey from London to Yarmouth, which is now accomplished in five hours.
page 30 note b Nathaniel Symonds, who was bailiff in 1682 and 1693. See Manship, p. 250.
page 30 note c For notes on the family of Ellys, see Manship, p. 210, and Palmer, p. 312.
page 30 note d There were two bailiffs to perform the duties now executed by the mayor. The bailiff first named was called the Prime Bailiff. Mr. England and John Gayford were bailiffs from the 8th November 1688 to the 29th Sept. 1689.
page 30 note e The Rev. Joshua Meen, then lecturer. He was in ill health, which probably was the reason why the corporation appointed a second lecturer. He died in 1690.
page 30 note f The Rev. Luke Milbourn, minister of the parish. He had been minister of St.Ethelburga, London, and lecturer of Shoreditch, and was esteemed “a person of learning and excellent parts.” He published several books, enumerated in Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica.
page 31 note a Thomas Bendish, esq. of Gray's Inn, who married Bridget, daughter of General Ireton, by Mary his wife, daughter of Oliver Cromwell. He resided at South-town, in a house now demolished. See Manship, p. 392, and Palmer, p. 308. He died April 27, 1707, ætat. 61, and was buried at St. Nicholas' church, Great Yarmouth. He was the proprietor of the Salt Pans, where salt continued to be manufactured until the commencement of the present century. For an account of this eccentric granddaughter of the Protector, see Noble's Lives of the Cromwell Family, ii. p. 329.
page 31 note b Major Thaxter was mayor of Yarmouth in 1666. He married Sarah, eldest daughter of Sir George England, and widow successively of John Burton, esq. and John Fowle, esq. He died May 19, 1690, aged 62. (Epitaph in St. Nicholas' church.)
page 31 note c For a description of a Yarmouth cart, see Manship, p. 274.
page 32 note a Burgh-Castle, the well-known Garianonum of the Romans. The worthy Dean was evidently no archæologist. (See Manship, p. 202.)
page 32 note b Richard Ferrier, esq. was bailiff in 1691. Richard Perrier, esq., his son, was bailiff in 1696, and mayor in 1706 and 1720. He was Member for the borough in 1708, 1710, and 1713, and major of the Yarmouth Fusileers. “Hujus Burgi et decoria et desiderii.” See his Latin epitaph in St. Nicholas' church, in Hist, of Norfolk, 1810, xi. 377.
page 33 note a In a letter addressed by Mr. Ferrier to his co-bailiff Mr. Godfrey, in 1696, who was then in London, there is this passage :—” Dear Partner. I had sent to Holland for some trees for my garden, but the frost has been so severe there, as has prevented their sending me any. I have blamed myself for not praying you to buy me some earlier, but my gardiner says ‘tis not yet too late. I therefore beg you would buy me and send me 20 wall-trees of the best sort of peach, apricock, and cherry, and 10 standing pear-trees of the best sort. The waggon does not come out till Thursday noon. Could you order them by that waggon, and to be laid on the top,—it would be better than afterwards; but if it can't he done, as I hope it may, then by the first waggon afterwards. They are often sent by waggon into country, and ‘tis the speediest conveyance.”
page 33 note b Sir Joseph Turton, Baron of the Exchequer, 1689.
page 33 note c It is one of the largest parochial churches in the kingdom. For a description of it, see Palmer, p. 109.
page 34 note a Henry, seventh Duke of Norfolk, K.G. succeeded in 1684, and died in 1701, in his 48th year. He was entertained at the house of the mayor, at the town's charge.
page 34 note b The Rev. John Burrell was presented to the vicarage of Gtorleston, by Humphrey Bedingfeld, esq. in 1673, Suckling's History of Suffolk, i. p. 377.
page 34 note c The Rev. John Smyth, rector of Lound, in Suffolk, to which living he was presented 1681, by Sir Thomas Allen of Somerleyton.
page 35 note a The bailiffs of Yarmouth, as conservators of the rivers Yare, Waveney, and Bure, which unite and discharge themselves at Yarmouth, were accustomed annually to proceed to the boundaries of their jurisdiction, in much state. This was called “The Water Feast,” and “The Water Frolic.” For a poetical description of it, see the Gentleman's Magazine for 1818. See also Palmer, p. 63.
page 35 note b Breydon, a large sheet of water, formed at the junction of the Yare and Waveney.
page 35 note c St. Olave's Priory. See Manship, p. 218, and Suckling's Suffolk.
page 36 note a Hardley Cross, which marks the boundary of the Yarmouth jurisdiction. In 1543 “there was a new cross with a crucifix carved on one side” set up; but, falling into decay, another cross was erected by the Haven Commissioners a few years since, on the same spot.
page 36 note b John Gayford, esq. was bailiff from the 8th Nov. 1688 to the 29th Sept. 1689, with Benjamin England, esq. He died in 1703, aged 69, and lies buried in Yarmouth church.
page 36 note c A bridge which connects the hundred of Walsham with West Flegg, and to which point the jurisdiction of Yarmouth at the river Bure extended. During Kett's rebellion in 1549, a pinnace was sent to Weybridge from Yarmouth, victualled for four days, and having twenty-four men in her. Palmer's Continuation of Manship.
page 37 note a Oxnead, a magnificent seat built by the Pastons on the banks of the Bure. An old view is engraved in Britton's Architectural Antiquities, and in the Gentleman's Magazine for January 1844. What remains of it is now a farm-house, belonging to Sir Henry Stracey, Bart. M.P. for East Suffolk. For some account of the Pastons, Earls of Yarmouth, see Palmer, p. 327.
page 38 note a John Sharp, D.D. (subsequently Archbishop of York), appointed Dean of Norwich in 1681, and removed to the deanery of Canterbury in 1689, a few months after the date in the text.
page 39 note a In the reign of Edward the Sixth.
page 39 note b John Jeffery, D.D. was elected minister of St. Peter's Mancroft in 1678, and held that preferment until his death in 1720. He became Archdeacon of Norwich in 1694. He married Sarah, daughter of John Ireland; she died 8th February, 1705, aged 54, and was buried at Yarmouth. (Hist, of Norfolk, xi. p. 394.)
page 39 note c Humphrey Prideaux, D.D., had become a prebendary of Norwich in 1681, and Archdeacon of Suffolk in 1688. He was promoted to the deanery of Norwich in 1702, and died in 1724. He was author of The Connection of the Old and New Testaments, 2 vol. 1715 and 1717.
page 40 note a Anthony Ellys, jun. was mayor in 1705. He was the father of Dr. Anthony Ellys, successively Bishop of St. David's and Bishop of Gloucester. Palmer, p. 366.
page 40 note b The ague seems at this time to have been very prevalent. It is now almost unknown at Yarmouth.
page 40 note c Thomas Bransby was a member of the corporation in 1630, but there is no further record of him. (See Palmer, p. 186.) Robert Bransby, his brother, died in 1692 without issue, leaving his wealth, which was considerable (including “ten messuages in St. Anne's, Blackfriars, London, which were lately rebuilt by me since the great fire in 1666,”) to his numerous nephews and nieces, including the Bransbys of Shottesham in Norfolk, to which family he belonged. His hatchment still remains in Yarmouth church, bearing, Azure, on a bend cotised sable, between two fleurs de lys gules, a lion passant or.
page 41 note a The vestry contained a small collection of books, principally on divinity.
page 42 note a This singular mode of election, “upon Seynt John's day, the Decollation,” was confirmed by certain “Ordenaunces and reules,” drawn up in 1491, “by the good and discrete advice of the right worshipful James Hobart, the Kyng's Attorney,” and continued until the passing of the Municipal Corporation Act in 1835, Mr. Charles John Palmer being the last person so elected to be mayor. See Manship, p. 357, and Palmer, p. 55.
page 43 note a Second son of Sir George England. He was an alderman, and bailiff in 1674 and 1689. He married Anne, daughter of Thomas Bulwer of Buxton in Norfolk, by his wife Anne, daughter of Robert Marsham, esq. of Stratton Strawless in Norfolk. He died Sept. 11, 1693, aged 48. Epitaph in Hist. of Norfolk, xi. 388.
page 43 note b He was again bailiff in 1700. George Ward, esq. was bailiff in 1675, 1683, and 1688. He was named in the charter granted by Charles II. in 1684, as “the first and modern mayor.” He was displaced by James II. George Ward was mayor in 1728, and Robert Ward in 1729. One of the two daughters and co-heirs of the latter was married to John Lacon, esq. the father of the first Sir Edmund Lacon, Bart. grandfather of the present Sir Edmund H. K. Lacon, Bart. M.P. for Great Yarmouth. Palmer, pp. 233, 310.
page 44 note a The Rev. John Gibson, rector of Caistor. His arms were Azure, three storks argent. He married Martha Crow, the arms of whose family were, Gyronny of eight or and sable, on a chief of the second three leopard's faces of the first.
page 45 note a John Carlow, esq. was bailiff in 1694, with Joseph Cotnam, esq. He was registrar of the Yarmouth Admiralty Court, Town-Clerk in 1704, and commanded a company of local militia.
page 45 note b The Toll-house, where the Courts were, and still are, held. See Manship, p. 256.
page 45 note c Thomas Godfrey, esq. was elected Town-Clerk of Yarmouth in 1681. He served the office of bailiff in 1683, and again in 1686. In 1703 he had £20 presented to him “for his pains taken about the new Charter.” He married Elizabeth, one of the two daughters and heirs of Major Thomas Wilde of Lowestoft, who, as his epitaph in the parish church there informs us, “was slayn by the Dutch in the defence of his King and Country.” He died in 1704, aged 63, leaving four daughters. Elizabeth, the eldest, died unmarried ; Judith, the second, married Samuel Wakeman, esq.; Martha, the third, married Francis Turner, esq. (the great-grandfather of Dawson Turner, esq. F.R.S. &c. and also of Sir George Turner, now one of the Lords Justices of Appeals) ; and Anne, the fourth, married Samuel Fuller, esq. He bore the arms of the Godfreys of East Bergholt in Suffolk, Sable, a chevron between three pelicans vulning themselves or. See Palmer, pp. 311, 317; for an account of the family of Wilde, see Gillingwater's History of Lowestoft.
page 46 note a Sir Robert Baldoek, knt. Recorder of Yarmouth. In 1671, when King Charles II. accompanied by the Duke of York, the Duke of Monmouth, the Duke of Buckingham, and a large retinue, visited Yarmouth, he conferred the honour of knighthood on Sir George England, Sir Robert Baldock, and Sir James Johnson. See Palmer, pp. 247, 345.
page 46 note b William Paston, Earl of Yarmouth, was High Steward of the borough; on whose death, in 1732, that noble family became extinct. See Manship, p. 327, Palmer, p. 329, and Norfolk Archæology, vol. iv. p. 1.
page 46 note c John Robins, esq. was bailiff of Yarmouth in 1678, and again in 1692. In the latter year he entertained King William when his Majesty landed at Yarmouth, on his return from Flanders.
page 47 note a This could scarcely be Mr. Isaac Preston, who became sub-steward of Yarmouth in 1749. See Palmer, p. 351.
page 47 note b The Rev. William Vesey gave by will £200 to the corporation of Great Yarmouth, “to be husbanded and employed for the best benefit of the poor.” Manship, p. 285.
page 48 note a A family of this name flourished at Yarmouth in the 17th and 18th centuries. Anthony Taylor was mayor in 1731; Christopher Taylor in 1752, and died during his year of office, Giles Wakeman. esq. supplying his place. Anthony Taylor was mayor in 1771, and William Taylor in 1775, the inquest which chose him having been shut up (according to the then custom of the borough) for six days before they could agree. This family, who bore, Sable, a leopard passant or, is now extinct. Palmer, pp. 272, 314.
page 48 note b Probably the wife of Jonathan Pew, esq. who was mayor of Yarmouth in 1718, and died in 1727, aged 63.
page 51 note a The Dean of Norwich, mentioned before, pp. 23, 38.
page 51 note b Fishing-boats from Yorkshire.
page 51 note c Christopher Crow, esq. descended from a family of that name, who were seized of lands in Bilney in the reign of Henry VIII. He was patron of the rectory there, and died in 1690, and was buried at Bilney. Blomefield'a Norfolk, ix. p. 461. William Crow was bailiff of Yarmouth in 1606. Swlnden, p. 945.
page 52 note a Thomas England, esq. second son of Sir George England (before noticed in p. 42), and Gabriel Ward, esq. (see p. 43), the newly elected bailiffs, were sworn in on Michaelmas Day.
page 53 note a “A short Defence of the Orders of the Church of England, as by Law established, against some Objections of Mr. Webster of Linne. London, 1688.” 4to.
page 53 note b Sir Christopher Minns, Knt. who attained the rank of admiral in 1665, was killed in the great naval battle with the Dutch, June 1, 1666.
page 54 note a We are informed by Manship, that the corporation were “very comely and magnificently placed in a gallery ; every one taking his place according to the seniority of his election.” The aldermen's wives were placed in “a chapel below, so contrived that every man might enjoy the sight of his own wife.”
page 55 note a Sir John Topham was a master in Chancery in Ireland.
page 55 note b John Conant was appointed official to the Archdeacon of Norwich in 1679. He was succeeded in 1723 by the Rev. Thomas Clayton.
page 56 note a Probably Robert Luson, esq. who then resided in a house on the South Quay, now the residence and property of Rear-Admiral Sir Baton Travers, R.N. William Lusou, esq. died in 1733, aged 72. For account of the Luson family, see Palmer's Continuation of Manship, p. 217.
page 56 note b Locally called Denes.
page 56 note c Probably John Spurgeon, esq. bailiff in 1698, and mayor in 1712.
page 56 note d John Albertson was mayor of Yarmouth in 1688. John Albertson, formerly alderman, and bailiff in 1655, died 28 Oct. 1693, aged 71. History of Norfolk, xi. 380.
page 57 note a Sir William Cook, of Broome in Norfolk, near Bungay, was the son of William Cook, esq. lord of that manor, by Mary, daughter of Thomas Aatley of Melton Constable, esq. He was created a Baronet in 1667, and was at this time one of the knights in Parliament for Norfolk, together with his cousin, Sir Jacob Astley, Bart. He died in Jan. 1708, having sold Broome. History of Norfolk, by Blomefield and Parkin, 1809, x. 110.
page 58 note a A Patrick Ronayne was sheriff of Cork 1665.
page 58 note b Probably Mr. John Bayly, husband of Mrs. Bayly, mentioned before (p. 29). His father, John Bayly, was mayor of Cork in 1674, and acquired a considerable estate, including Castlemore, a castle and lands forfeited by Phelim Mac Owen Carthy in 1641. He also became a justice of peace for the county of Cork. Mr. John Bayly, the son, is favourably mentioned by Smith in his History of Cork (1750), vol. i. p. 204, as an agricultural improver, and at p. 208 is given the inscription on his monument, which tells us that he served in the wars of Ireland, and was a justice of the peace, and died in 1719. Smith calls him Captain Bayly of Castlemore. He left five daughters: the eldest carried the estates into the family of Rye, by marriage with Colonel George Rye, author of a Tract on Agriculture, published in 1730. Another of Mr. Bayly's daughters married Doctor Joseph Rogers, son of George Rogers, elsewhere mentioned in this Journal. The Doctor was author of an able medical work. Another of the daughters married Henry Sheares, esq. and their son, Henry, was M.P. for Clonakilty 1761, and father of Henry and John Sheares, who were executed as rebels in 1798; another daughter married one of the Travers family. Castlemore is now a ruin. When Smith wrote, it was inhabited by Mr. Travers. There was another John Bayly about this time, who was mayor of Cork in 1679. He seems to have been connected with Cornwall, and left only daughters. On the 11th of October, 1694, there was an order of Council, “That in the room of Alderman Bayly of Castlemore, who is very ancient and decrepit, and never likely to appear at this board, and the room of Alderman Bayly, junior, who lives in England, until he shall return, that (others named) be sworn of the Council.”
page 58 note c Titular Bishop of Cork, appointed by King James.
page 58 note d Gill abbey House, on the grounds of which the Queen's College has been lately erected, was formerly called Rockville, and was inhabited by the Rev. Mr. Berkeley, nephew of the celebrated Bishop Berkeley. It was some distance beyond the site of the Old Abbey. Possibly the Journalist's house was on the same spot.
page 59 note a Afterwards Sir Richard Cox, Bart., Lord Chancellor of Ireland; author of a History of Ireland.
page 59 note b A James Finch was sheriff of Cork 1664, mayor 1670.
page 59 note c A coffee-house near Charing-cross, again mentioned two days further on. One of the family of Story afterwards kept a coffee-house at the south-east entrance of St. James's Park, and gave name to Story's Gate.
page 59 note d Doubtless some descendant of John Fitzgerald, Dean of Cork, already mentioned in the note on John Ormsby, esq. in p. 25.
page 59 note e Lady Mary O'Brien, daughter of Murrogh first Earl of Inchiquin, and wife of Major Henry Boyle, (younger son of Roger, first Earl of Orrery,) who was engaged at the battle of the Boyne, and died in Flanders in 1693. Their second son, Henry, was. created Earl of Shannon in 1756.
page 60 note a His wife's niece; see p. 8.
page 60 note b Edward Hoare, sheriff of Cork 1684, mayor 1686. His descendant became a Baronet.
page 60 note c Murrough Boyle, eldest son of the Archbishop of Armagh, created Viscount Blessington in 1673.
page 60 note d Sir Richard Reynell, made a Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland 1674, removed by King James 1686, made Chief Justice of the King's Bench 1690; resigned 1694.
page 60 note e John Osborne, Prime Serjeant in succession to Sir William Davys 1680, removed by King James 1687, re-appointed 1690; died 1692.
page 60 note f John Lyndon, Justice of the King's Bench 1682; died 1698.
page 60 note g Tobias Pullen, Dean of Ferns and Leighlin. In 1689 he was attainted by King James. Nov. 1694, he was promoted to the see of Cloyne, on the warm recommendation of Dr. Tenison, then Bishop of Lincoln, and the next year translated to Dromore.
page 60 note h See before, p. 28.
page 60 note i Charles Oliver, esq. M.P. for Middleton, county of Cork, 1695.
page 60 note k Richard Pyne, one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal of Ireland, August 1, 1690; afterwards Chief Justice of the King's Bench, June 7, 1694; died 1709.
page 60 note l Alan Brodrick, esq. afterwards Lord Chancellor Midleton (see before, p. 21).
page 60 note m Sir John Skeffington, Bart. who succeeded his father-in-law, Sir John Clotworthy, as second Lord Viscount Massareene in 1665. He was attainted by King James's Parliament in 1689, and died in 1695.
page 60 note n Of Newton, county of Down, Knt.
page 60 note o Henry Echlin, Third Serjeant 1683; afterwards Baron of the Exchequer, from 1693 to 1714: he died 1725, having been created a Baronet.
page 61 note a George Lane, second Viacount Lanesborough, secretary of state and secretary of war 1665, clerk of the star-chamber and keeper of the records in Bermingham tower, Dublin castle.
page 61 note b The celebrated Rev. Robert Walker, the defender of Derry.
page 61 note c John Vesey, D.D. (see before, p. 7.)
page 61 note d Sir Oliver St. George, Knt., appointed one of the Commissioners for settling the affairs of Ireland in the 12 Chas. II., created Bart. 5 Sept. 1660, for hia good services at the restoration.
page 61 note e Robert King, second Lord Kingston, succeeded his father in 1676. He was actively engaged in a military capacity against King James, and was attainted in the Parliament of 1689. He died without issue in 1693, and was succeeded by his brother John.
page 61 note f Probably Andrew Chaplin, who obtained a grant of land in the co. Cork under the Act of Settlement.
page 61 note g Robert Rochfort, an eminent barrister, recorder of Londonderry from 1680 to 1707, afterwards attorney-general of Ireland 1695, and speaker of the House of Commons. His grandson was created Earl of Belvedere, a title now extinct.
page 62 note a Lately promoted from Norwich ; see before, p. 23.
page 64 note a Probably Bartholomew Vigors, LL D. Dean of Armagh, who was promoted to the see of Ferns, by letters patent dated 27 Feb. 1690.
page 64 note b There was then a posting-house at Scole, built in 1655 by James Peck, a merchant of Norwich, and famous “for the noblest signe post in England,” extending across the road, upon which, among other things, appeared a lion supporting the arms of Great Yarmouth. It is represented in a large engraving, of which there are also smaller copies.
page 66 note a Apparently the “lampoon “on Yarmouth before mentioned in p. 41.
page 66 note b It appears from a list of the names of the Protestants of the county and city of Cork and their families, who fled from King James II. with the yearly value of their estates, both real and personal, &c. that the Journalist's real estate was worth £120 per annum. (Vide Tuckey's Cork Remembrancer, Appendix, p. 329.)
page 66 note c Her husband : see p. 59.
page 68 note a James Hannott became minister of the Independent congregation in June 1688, and continued in that office until his death in 1704, at the age of 50. He waa buried in the parish church of St. Nicholas. He is said to have been a worthy man and much esteemed by the people. His daughter Mary married John Ives, esq. of Great Yarmouth, and was the mother of John Ives, esq. F.S A. Suffolk Herald extraordinary.
page 69 note a Thomas Bransby, esq. of Caistor.
page 69 note b See p. 44.
page 69 note c John Blennerhasset, esq. of Caistor, who died in 1704. He bore, Gules, a chevron ermine between three dolphins embowed argent. He was the last survivor of the ancient Norfolk family.
page 69 note d Probably Crow, as a family of that name flourished at Caistor at this time. In 1659, Caistor castle was sold by the Pastons to William Crow, a citizen of London.
page 71 note a “Historiarum Conciliorum et Canonum, invicem collatorum, veterumque Ecclesiæ Rituum Notitia Ecclesiastioa, Editio tertia. Lugd. 1680,” folio. Written by Jean Cabassut, professor of the civil law at Avignon. There is also a less perfect edition in 8vo. 1670.
page 71 note b John Spurgeon, esq. was mayor of Yarmouth in 1698.
page 71 note c “Libertas Ecclesiastica: concerning the lawfulness of those things excepted against by the Non-conformists in the Liturgy and Worship of the Church of England. By William Falkener, D.D. London, 1674.” 4to.
page 72 note a Richard Huntingdon, esq. who had for many years taken a leading part in the affairs of the town of Great Yarmouth. He was returned to Parliament for the borough in 1679, with Sir William Coventry, and again in 1686, with Mr. George England. He was bailiff in 1666 with Major Thaxter, and in 1676, with Mr. Benjamin England.
page 72 note b Somerleyton, then the property and residence of Sir Thomas Allen, and now of Sir Samuel Morton Peto, Bart. See Manship, p. 388.
page 73 note a The public rooms where the gentlemen of Yarmouth were accustomed to read the papers, retained the name of “The Coffee Rooms” until recently: although the use of coffee there had long been discontinued.
page 74 note a The Rev. Joseph Hudson was at this time Vicar of Lowestoft. He died in 1691. He was on the most friendly terms with Mr. Emlyn, who was then a noted dissenting minister at Lowestoft. Mr. Peake was an eminent surgeon, and died in 1713. Mr. Pacey was an opulent fishing merchant at Lowestoft.
page 75 note a Heigham Dam.
page 76 note a Ludham, formerly a country-house of the bishops of Norwich.
page 76 note b Hoveton Hall is now the property of Henry Negus Burroughes, esq. M.P. for East Norfolk.
page 76 note c The Rev. Andrew Calle. He was presented to the rectory of Mautby in 1671, by Sir Robert Paston, afterwards Earl of Yarmouth, and died in 1697, aged 56. He bore on a fees between two chevronels, three escallops.
page 77 note a Richard Huntingdon, esq. represented Yarmouth in Parliament (with Sir William Coventry) in 1678, and in the following year with Mr. George England. His daughter Rosa was married to Samuel Fuller, esq.
page 77 note b Richard Wade entered his estate as £100 a year sequestered by King James's government in Ireland.
page 77 note c Probably Philip Bennett of Maulaehollig in the county of Cork, who died in 1733, son of George Bennett of the same place, who died in 1673, by his wife, Mary, sister of Philip Ruby. The family farmed these lands from Alderman George Bennett, father of Judge Bennett, who was probably a relation. Philip had brothers, two of whom, Henry and Thomas, had each a son named Philip, one or other of whom was father of Henry, father of Philip, father of Henry, father of Mr. John Barter Bennett, recently elected member of the Legislative Council or Upper House of the south province of Victoria.
page 78 note a Part of the old fortifications of the town. See Manship, p. 275.
page 79 note a London, 1679. 8vo. By James Yonge, F.R.S. surgeon, Plymouth.
page 79 note b Barbetti, Paul, his Chirurgical and Anatomical works translated into English. Lond. 1672, 8vo. Chirurgia, cum notis Joh. Muys. Amst. 1693.
page 80 note a Thomas Bradford, esq. was Bailiff of Yarmouth in 1695. He died 3 July, 1703, æt. 74. His monument is in St. Nicholas's church.
page 81 note a George Spillman, esq. was bailiff of Yarmouth in 1695.
page 82 note a Colonel Henry Boyle: see the note in p. 59.
page 72 note b Richard Covett was sheriff of Cork 1657, and mayor 1662, and again 1682. He died in 1684. Tlie above might have been his son.
page 83 note a Probably the son of Sir Standish Hartstonge, of Bruff, co. Limerick, created a Baronet of Ireland in 1681.
page 83 note b Lieut-General Francis Palmes was M.P. for Youghal in 1715; he was dead in 1719.
page 83 note c Charles Boyle, Lord Clifford of Lanesborough, son and heir of the Earl of Burlington and Cork (p. 2.) He died during his father's lifetime in 1694, and was father of Richard the celebrated Earl of Burlington, whose daughter, and heiress was married to William fourth Duke of Devonshire.
page 83 note d William Cavendish, fourth Earl of Devonshire, and the first Duke (1694). His son William now Lord Cavendish succeeded him as second Duke in 1707, and died in 1729.
page 84 note a This family of Cross have been seated at Shandy Hall in the county of Cork. They were probably connected with Dr. Hawes, mentioned in other parts of this Journal. About this period Sylvester Cross was possessed of the site of St. Dominick's abbey in the city of Cork, now called Cross's Green. There was more anciently another place called Cross Green, from the Cross of Cork.
page 84 note b The Bechers of the county of Cork are descended from Fane Becher, one of those gentlemen called “planters” who became settled in Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth. He was son of Alderman Henry Becher of London.
page 85 note a The Claytons were of considerable note in the county of Cork. Sir Randal Clayton of St. Dominick's abbey, knight, died in 1637, possessed of estates in this county and also in Cheshire. A Sir Courthorpe Clayton, knight, was owner of “the Little Island” in Cork harbour. The Love family mentioned before were descended from the Claytons, and through them from the Percevals, whose descendants are Earls of Egmont.
page 85 note b Probably of the family of Wallis of Drishane Castle, formerly the property of a branch of the M'Carthys. The eldest son of Colonel Wallis of Drishane Castle is the present high sheriff of the county of Cork.
page 86 note a Roger Boyle, second Earl of Orrery, brother-in-law to Lady Mary.
page 86 note b Boyle Aldworth, mentioned before in p. 4, married a daughter of — Culliford, a commissioner of the revenue.
page 86 note c The Morris family have been long known in the city and county of Cork; Jonas Morris was mayor of Cork in 1659. Captain Win, Morris passed patent under the Act of Settlement for considerable estates, getting their names changed into the names of certain places in Shropshire. Such changes were specially authorised by the above Act of Parliament. But we believe the old names still prevail. These family estates were lately sold by the Incumbered Estates Court. There is another branch of the family resident at Dunkettle, a place much admired by Arthur Young on his tour in Ireland.
page 86 note d The Olivers of Clonodfoy had large estates in the county of Limerick, which lately passed to co-heiresses. A junior branch reside at Inchera, near Cork, formerly the seat of Pope Gray, esq. whose wife was Mary, daughter of Rowland Davies, esq. grandson of the Dean.
page 86 note e Thomas Tenison, D.D. afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, was the first Rector of St. James's, Westminster, appointed by Act of Parliament in 1685. He held the rectory until his promotion to the bishopric of Lincoln in 1692.
page 87 note a John Tillotson, D.D. at this time Dean of St. Paul's, and in 1691 Archbishop of Canterbury.
page 87 note b At St. James's: see Bishop Cartwright's Diary, p. 52.
page 88 note a William, sixth Lord Blayney, succeeded his brother Henry-Vincent in 1689, and died in 1705. Both brothers Buffered sequestration of their estates from King James.
page 88 note b See before, p. 20.
page 88 note c Robert Grove, D.D. chaplain to bishop Henchman, Rector of Wennington, Essex, 1667; rector of Langham and vicar of Aldham, both in the same county, 1669; rector of St. Andrew Undershaft, 1670; prebendary of Willesden, 1679; archdeacon of Middlesex, 1690; Bishop of Chichester, 1691; died 1696.
page 89 note a A tavern celebrated for mum, an ale made of the malt of wheat, the recipe for which will be found in Webster's Dictionary, and several quotations mentioning it in those by Johnson and Richardson. It was a German liquor, and said to have been brought from Brunswick. The Mum house is not entered in Cunningham's Hand-book for London, edit. 1847.
page 90 note a Anthony Bowyer and John Arnold, esquires.
page 91 note a From this Christian name it would seem that those persons whom the journalist frequently mentions tinder the spelling of “Morris “were really Morrices of the county of Kerry, of whose family Smith, writing in 1749, gives the following account in his History of that county. “This family is descended from John Morrice of Northall in Essex, a place within thirty miles of London, who married Joan Waite, an inheritrix, his estate with his wife's making together £1000 a year old rent. Francis Morrice, the eldest son, together with his father, having spent the said fortune, came into Ireland during Queen Elizabeth's wars, bringing over with him his three brothers, John, Matthew, and Luke, who took a lease of the lands of Urly in the barony of Iraghticonoor, in Kerry, and paid £200 fine for it, and 20s. per annum chiefry. The said Francis, by his wife Jane Talbot, had issue—1. Jasper, who left no children, and 2. Samuel, who by his wife, Mary Raymond, had Joseph, Samuel, Jasper, and Theophilus Morrice. Joseph had no issue; and Samuel, by his wife, Elizabeth Southwell, had the late Samuel Morrice, esq. of Ballybeggan, counsellor-at-Iaw, who married Mrs. Rachel Dyn, and Richard Morris of Finuge, esq. married to Elizabeth, daughter of George Gun, esq.”
page 91 note b Hasset is a known contraction for Blennerhasset, a Kerry family, whose pedigree is very fully given in Playfair's Family Antiquity, vol. vii.
page 91 note c Pontack's was a celebrated French eating-house in Abchureh-lane. See several quotations respecting it, from writers varying from 1692 to 1724, in Cunningham's Handbook for London, edit. 1849, p. 667. The present notice is still earlier. De Foe informs ua that the name was derived from “the sign of Pontack, a president of the parliament of Bordeaux, from whose name the best French clarets are called so;” and tells us that there, in 1722, “you might bespeak a dinner from four or five shillings a-head to a guinea, or what sum you please.” Journey through England, i. 175.
page 91 note d Barry Love (already noticed in p. 3) remained at Yarmouth until his death on the 1st Nov. 1722, æt. 60. His tomb still remains on the west side of St. Nicholas’ churchyard, with a lion rampant guardant for his arms.
page 92 note a Richard Tennison, born at Carriokfergus, co. Cavan, chaplain to Arthur Earl of Essex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was promoted to the sees of Killala and Achonry 18th Feb. 1681. He betook himself to England during the troubles in King James's time, and was made minister of St. Helen's, London (where Henry Hesketh, M.A. was then Vicar.) At his departure he was presented by the parishioners with a handsome piece of plate, which remains in the possession of his family. He was subsequently transferred to Clogher, and from thence to Meath.
page 93 note a Jonas Morris was mayor of Cork 1659 ; but see p. 91.
page 93 note b J. Hasset being twice mentioned before, it is probable this title is a mistake, especially as none such appears at this time in the Blennerhasset pedigree ; see note, p. 91.
page 94 note b Sir William Cook, before noticed in p. 57.
page 94 note c Sir Jacob Astley, the first baronet, created 1660, died 1729.
page 94 note d Thomas Blofleld, esq. an alderman of the city, first elected to parliament in 1688, and afterwards to four other parliaments.
page 94 note e Hugh Bokenham, elected only in 1690, and died before the end of the same parliament.
page 94 note f Sir John Turner, Knt. was M.P. for Lynn in seven parliaments, from 1685 to 1701 inclusive.
page 94 note g Daniel Bedingfield, esq. was elected only to the parliament of 1690.
page 94 note h Sir Francis Gruybon, Knt. elected for Thetford in 1688, and again in 1690.
page 94 note i Probably Nicholas Colthurst, esq. of Ballyally in the county of Cork, who married Penelope, daughter (by his last wife) of Sir John Topham, elsewhere mentioned in this Journal, and had two daughters, who carried his estates by marriage into the families of Bateman of Kerry and Dunscombe of Cork. His brother John Colthurst married the heiress of Conway of Kerry, and had a son, created a Baronet in 1744.
page 95 note a Horace was the name of one of the sons of Colonel Richard Townsend, who in 1648, with Colonel Doyley, attempted, without their general Lord Inchiquin's consent, to betray the towns of Munster to the English parliament for arrears of pay, but was imprisoned by Lord Inchiquin. Nevertheless one of his sons was named Bryen, probably in respect to that Lord. This Bryen's descendants are a flourishing family in the county of Cork, in several branches. His younger son John married a daughter of Colonel Barry by Susan daughter of John Townsend (eldest son of Colonel Richard) and his wife Katharine, daughter of the second Earl of Barrymore, and, this earldom being extinct, the descendants of the above John Townsend claim the feodal barony of Barry, created by writ of summons in 1490. But the descent of it was very loose and arbitrary. John Lord Barry, in 1556, entailed his estates on James, styled Baryroe, a distant relation, and whose father was thought to have been illegitimate, passing over several elder subsisting branches, even of the male line; and the Crown, without questioning the right, continued the writs of summons to James and his descendants. David, son and successor to this James, obtained a release from Margaret, daughter to James Muirtagh Barry, and wife of William Shaine Mac Cotter of Ballycopnier, of the inheritance of her father as Barrymoyle, or bald Barry, (a nick-name derived from an ancestor William Lord Barry, who was bald), and another release of the same from Ellen, daughter of John Barry, and wife of Magner, from which it would seem that females might even then have been heirs general. However, even in that case, a new barony must have been created in James Barry, which would vest in the Townsends, if legitimately descended; but this is not certain, for it is said that Colonel Barry, when he married Susan Townsend, had another wife, Mary Anselme, living in England. (As to the Barrys see Lodge and Harl. MS. 1425).
page 95 note b The Crosbies were a Kerry family of note, and not long since were peers by the title of Brandon, now extinct.
page 95 note c The family of Hooker, alias Vowell, which produced the celebrated author of” Ecclesiastical Polity,” had branches which called themselves Vowell only : some were settled in the county of Cork. A Reverend William Vowell married a sister of General Sir Eyre Coote, K.B., mentioned in a former note.
page 96 note a Robert Gillman was younger brother of John Gillman, great-grandfather of Sir John St. Leger Gillman, created a Baronet in 1799. This title is extinct. Robert died without issue.
page 96 note b The archbishop of Armagh : see note before, p. 60.
page 96 note c The wife of Sir John Topham (before, p. 55). Sir John was twice married; his last wife was possibly sister of Sir Patrick Dunn, founder of Dunn's Hospital in Dublin, for Sir John in his will, dated in 1696, and proved in 1700, calls Sir Patrick Dunn his brother-in-law.
page 97 note a Sir Henry Bingham, third Baronet. His brother Sir George, fourth Baronet, was ancestor of the Earls of Lucan and Lord Clanmorris.
page 97 note b Probably the family of Sir John Frederick, Knt. Lord Mayor of London in 1662, whose grandson was created a Baronet in 1723.
page 98 note a Three of his Yarmouth friends, already noticed.
page 98 note b Dive Downs (ancestor of the present Lord Downes), afterwards Bishop of Cork and Ross, in 1699. He was born at Thornby in Northamptonshire; educated at Trin. Coll. Dublin, of which he afterwards became a Fellow. He left behind him an “Itinerary through the diocese of Cork and Ross,” containing much curious information, which was formerly preserved in the Registry of Cork, but is now among the MSS. in Trinity College. He died at Dublin, Nov. 13, 1709, and was buried at St. Andrew's.
page 99 note a The Dean of Canterbury. He was at this time Rector of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, which he held from the 3d Jan. 1675, until his promotion to the archbishopric of York in 1691.
page 100 note a See before, p. 13.
page 101 note a In Change-alley, Cornhill; described in the Tatler, No. 38, “as the general meet for Stock-jobbers,” and also mentioned in the same capacity in the first number of the Spectator.
page 101 note b John Crellius, a celebrated Socinian writer. His theological works form a considerable part of the work of the “Fratres Poloni.” “Omnia Opera Irenop. 1656,” 4 tom. fol.
page 102 note a Garraway's Coffee-house in Exchange-alley, whose reputation has survived to our own day as a place of business as well as recreation, was established by Thomas Garway before the Restoration. See Cunningham's Hand-book for London.
page 102 note b A famous ordinary, on the site of Drummond's banking-house at Charing-cross. It was named from Adam Locket, who was there in 1674; his successor, in or before 1688, was Edward Locket. Strype in 1720 describes it as “a house of entertainment much frequented by gentry.” See many passages cited in Cunningham's Hand-book.
page 102 note c Shuttleworth's is not mentioned by Cunningham.
page 103 note a Mentioned in Bishop Cartwright's Diary, under the 4th Oct. 1686.
page 104 note a i. e. at the end of the street called Broad Gate. The figure now called Peeping Tom, and connected with the well-known legend of Lady Godiva, is of wood, and supposed to have once been a figure of Saint George.
page 104 note b Sir Orlando Bridgman, the Lord Keeper, who died in 1673, had a very ancient house in Little Park-street, Coventry, of which an engraving was given in the Gentleman's Magazine for March 1804. He left his family (since Earls of Bradford), seated at Castle Bromwieh, in the county of Warwick. By his second marriage he had issue Sir Orlando Bridgman, of Ridley, in the county of Chester, created a Baronet in 1673, who had two daughters; Penelope, married to Thomas Newport, Lord Torrington, and Charlotte, married to Richard Sims, esq. of Blackheath. One of these may have been the beauty mentioned in the text. Their brother Sir Orlando the second Baronet was M.P. for Coventry in 1705–1710; he was drowned in the Thames in 1738.
page 105 note a At Packington.
page 105 note b Eldest son of John Hacket, bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. He died in 1709 : see his epitaph in Dugdale's Warwickshire, by Thomas, ii. 936.
page 105 note c Thomas Wood, consecrated 1671, died 1692.
page 105 note d The Trent.
page 106 note a This must surely mean Tixall, the seat of Lord Aston.
page 106 note b Walter Chetwynd, esq. He died in 1692, and was succeeded hy his cousin-german, John Chetwynd, whose son was created a peer of Ireland in 1717. Genealogists begin the pedigree with Adam de Chetwynd, living in the 13th century, who, says Dugdale, was of such distinction in those early times, as to marry Agnes, daughter of John Lord Lovel, Baron of Dockinges. But in the Heralds’ Visitation (Harl. MS. 6128), this Adam is called “Alanus,” and his son is called “John Chetwynd, fil's Alani, sans date,” from which it is evident that the father's name Alanus was conjectured from the mention of the son in a deed without date. But it would seem rather that Fitzalan was the original name of the family, and that this branch took the name of Chetwynd from that of the lands given to a younger son, for in Testa de Neville the above John de Chetwind is mentioned as holding two knight's fees in Chetwind, of the Barony of John Fitzalan (J. fil’ Alani), who was afterwards Earl of ArundeL We may take this opportunity of correcting another part of the published pedigree, which tells us that Sir Philip de Chetwynd married the widow of Lord Ferrers, and daughter of Thomas de la Roche, and died having had a son, William, ancestor of the present noble family. It is evident, however, from the above Visitation, that the compiler of it had before him an inquisition taken on the death of the mother of Sir Philip, who died before her, and by this it was found that Humphry Hextall, her cousin, was her heir-at-law, so that her son Sir Philip could not have left issue.
page 107 note a Honora, fourth daughter of Michael Boyle, archbishop of Armagh, and sister to Murrough created Viscount Blesinton (see p. 60), was married first to Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Ardglass, who died without issue in 1684, when his peerage became extinct; secondly, to Francis Cuffe, esq. (son and heir of Sir James Cuffe, knt. of Ballinrobe, county of Mayo), M.P. for the county of Mayo, who died in 1694; and thirdly, to Captain Thomas Burdett, who was afterwards created a Baronet and died in 1697. Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, by Archdall, i. 148, iii. 380.
page 109 note a His descendants bear the name of Conyngham, with the title of Marquess. His brother Benjamin was ancestor of the Burtons of Burton Hall, in the county of Carlow, and of the Baronets of this name.
page 110 note a Dr. Samuel Synge, elder brother to Dr. Edward Synge, Archbishop of Tuam. He was Dean of Kildare, and married Margaret Boyle, younger sister to the Countess of Ardglass, noticed in p. 107.
page 110 note b Through the Journalist's wife, whose mother's aunt, Alice Boyle, married Henry Delaune, esq. who died at the siege of Lostwithiel in Cornwall.
page 110 note c William Smith, D.D., consecrated Bishop of Eaphoe, 1681; translated to Kilmore and Ardagh 5 April 1693.
page 110 note d William Loyd, born at Penheelis in the Island of Anglesey. In 1685 he was made Dean of Aehonry and Precentor of Killala, and in Feb. 28, 1690, he was promoted to the same sees.
page 111 note a Probably Dr. Peter Brown, afterwards Bishop of Cork and Ross.
page 111 note b i. e. to Chester.
page 112 note a Charlemont was a strong castle erected in the year 1602, by Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, Deputy of Ireland, with a view to keep in check the Earl of Tyrone, who resided at Dungannon, within a few miles of it. Schomberg at first considered it impregnable. It was commanded by Teig O'Regan, an old officer, who, when summoned to surrender, replied, “The old knave Schomberg shall not have this castle.” It was subsequently reduced by Caillemote, a French officer.
page 113 note a The eagle and child is the crest of the Stanleys Earls of Derby. The legend is well known.
page 113 note b Frederick de Schomberg, who had been created Duke of Schomberg in the English peerage, April 10,1689. He was slain at the battle of the Boyne, as described hereafter.
page 113 note c Joseph Wilkins, LL. B., Dean of Clogher in 1682. From a Triennial Visitation Book of 1693, he appears as Rector of Blaris alias Lisburn; he also held the neighbouring parish of Derryaghy. He was still Rector of Lisburn in 1714, and was succeeded by a George Wilkins, probably his son.
page 113 note d A Robert Pooley, living about this time, is mentioned in Playfair's Family Antiquity, vol. vii. p. 703, where some account of his family is given. He “was brother-in-law of Sir Richard Hull, Chief Justice.
page 113 note e At this time King William's Advocate-General. See notes, pp. 55 and 96.
page 114 note a Edward Brabazon, fourth Earl of Meath 1684, Custos Rotulorum of the counties of Dublin and Kildare 1685. He was attainted by King James's parliament, May 7, 1689, and his estate of two thousand pounds a year sequestered. He commanded a regiment of foot at the taking of Carriekfergus, 26th August 1689 ; fought at the battle of the Boyne, 1st July, 1690, and was wounded in the attack on Limerick, 27th Augu3t following. He died in 1707.
page 114 note b Colonel William Wolseley, a younger son of Sir Robert Wolseley, the first Boronet, of Wolseley, in the county of Stafford. He commanded tho Enniskillen men at the battle of the Boyne: after which he was made Master of the Ordnance in Ireland, and a privycouncillor. He died in 1697, unmarried.
page 114 note c See Harris's Life of William III. p. 264.
page 115 note a Sir Pury Cust, Knt. was the son and heir apparent of Sir Richard Cust, of Pinchbeck, in the county of Lincoln, created a Baronet in 1677. He died before his father in 1699, leaving issue Sir Richard, who by Anne, sister and sole heir of John Brownlow, Viscount Tyrconnel, was ancestor of the Earls Brownlow.
page 115 note b See before, the note in p. 95.
page 116 note a Laurence Sterne, in his sketch of his own life, tells us that his father”s regiment was ordered to Mullingar (in 1722), “where,” says he, “by Providence we stumbled upon a kind relation, a collateral descendant from Archbishop Sterne, who took us all to his castle, and kindly entertained us for a year, and sent us to the regiment at Carrickfergus loaded with kindnesses, ” The above Archbishop (of York) was great-grandfather of Laurence Sterne. Mullingar is in the county of Westmeath. Robert Stearne, esq. of Tullinally, in that county, made his will in 1658, in which he describes himself as “at present in the Lord Fleetwood's regiment of foot.” He left considerable estates in Antrim, Westmeath, and Kerry, to his sons Robert and John, for part of which they afterwards passed patents. He names also his brothers John and James, the former of whom was probably Doctor John Stearne, F.T.C.D., father of John Stearne, Bishop of Clogher. Robert the son was the above Captain, afterwards Major-General, Stearne, mentioned in note at p. 29. He had two nephews named Tighe, whose estates lay in the above county of Westmeath, in which Laurence Sterne met his kind relation, who therefore was probably either one of the Stearne family (notwithstanding the difference of spelling) or of the Tighe family. In Burke's Landed Gentry (1844), under “Hill of Doneraile,” is mention of Anne Cooke, grand-daughter of the Rev. John Sterne, and great-grand-daughter of the Archbishop of York, and the above Robert Stearne of Tullinally names his cousin Lieutenant Robert Cooke, which is a slight evidence of some connection with Laurence Sterne. General Stearne continued in active employment. He was for some time Governor of Duncannon fort, and at the time of his death he was Governor or Master of the Royal Hospital near Dublin, an office now usually assigned to the Commander-in-Chief. On his death, a paper containing some doggrel verses, still extant, was presented on the part of the inmates of the hospital to his widow, who was paternal aunt of Dr. Timothy Tuekey, mentioned by Smith (vol. ii. p. 398) as having kept the diary of the weather in Cork, from which he obtained his information.
page 117 note a Probably Thomas Bellingham, afterwards a Colonel, ancestor of Sir William Bellingham, created a Baronet in 1796.
page 117 note b There seems to be some error in this immense number.
page 117 note c Sir William Stewart, of Newtown Stewart, in the county of Tyrone, Bart, was created Viscount Mountjoy in 1682, being at the same time constituted Master of the Ordnance for life, and Colonel of a regiment of foot. In 1688 he was persuaded to undertake a mission to King James in France, together with Sir Stephen Rice, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, whereupon he was committed prisoner to the Bastille, and was not released until 1692. (See Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, by Archdall, vi. 248–253.) Captain Stewart, in the text, was probably his eldest son William, who succeeded to the peerage in 1692, on his father being slain at the battle of Steenkirk, shortly after rejoining King William in Flanders.
page 118 note a Meinhardt, eldest son of the Duke of Schomberg. He was created Duke of Leinster in Ireland in 1690, and in 1693 succeeded his younger brother Charles as third Duke of Schomberg, that dignity having been conferred with prior remainder to the younger brother. He died in 1719, s. p. when both dukedoms became extinct.
page 120 note a Smith, vol. i. p. 212, tells us that Captain Hedges purchased Kilcrea from the Hollowblade Company. His descendants added the name of Eyre, though latterly not often called by it, and resided at Mount Hedges, but more lately at Macroom Castle. The late Robert Hedges, esq. of that place, was reputed the chief commoner of the county of Cork. On his death the estates were divided. The Macroom estate came to a younger son of his nephew the Earl of Bantry, who has added the name of Hedges to that of White. Macroom Castle was built in the time of King John. It is remarkable for its immense covering of ivy. The Hedges family are deduced, in a pedigree drawn up in 1689, from John Lacy, of a Cornish family, whose children, born in Queen Elizabeth's time, bore the name of Lacy alias Hedges. One of them had a son, Robert Hedges of Youghal, who was father of Sir William Hedges of London, Knt. and of Robert Hedges of the Queen's County, ancestor of the Cork family. Henry Hedges, another grandson of Lacy, was father of Sir Charles Hedges, Judge of the English Court of Admiralty. Sir William Hedges of London had a son Charles, who married Catharine daughter of Bartholomew Tate, and had a daughter Susanna, who, marrying Sir Cecil Bishopp, has transmitted to her descendants the barony of Zouch, derived through the Tates. The present Mr. White Hedges of Macroom Castle is descended from the Journalist, his father the first Earl of Bantry being grandson of Richard White, esq. by his wife Martha, daughter of the Rev. Richard Davies, son of the Dean.
page 120 note b A branch of the Purdon family came from the county of Louth to the county of Cork, in the person of Sir Nicholas Purdon, who was maternal grandfather of Nicholas Colthurst, mentioned in the note’ p. 94. The heiress of the Cork Purdons married Robert Coote, eldest brother of Sir Eyre Coote, K.B. mentioned in the note p. 29, and had several sons, of whom the eldest, Chidley, was father of Sir Charles, who succeeded as Premier Baronet of Ireland, and Bartholomew, the fourth, took the name of Purdon.
page *121 note a This Captain Neville and Mr. Pooley mentioned in the next following paragraph, and who is elsewhere in the diary called Robert, seem to have been relations; Robert Pooley's mother was a Neville. We extract the following passage from Playfair's Family Antiquity, vol. vii. p. 703, relating to these and some other families whose members are alluded to in this diary. “Frances Pooley was the grand-daughter of Pooley, esq. who married the sister of sir Richard Southwell. Her father was William Pooley of Hartist, near St. Edmundsbury, in Suffolk, esq.: he married Douglas Neville, third daughter and co-heiress of Edward Neville, esq. (son and heir of Francis second son of Edward Neville, Baron Abergavenny in 1587, by Catherine, daughter of Sir John Brome of Halton, in the county of Oxford, Knt.) who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Francis Palmes, Knt. Anne, the eldest sister of Douglas Neville, married Sir Richard Southwell, of Ireland; and after his decease became wife of Colonel John Trenchard, by whom she left issue, William and Francis Trenchard. Her second sister married Charles Longueville, Lord Grey of Ruthvyn, whose only daughter and heiress, Susan, married sir Henry Yelverton, Knt. William Pooley had issue five sons, viz. Thomas Neville, John, Giles, and Robert, and three daughters. Of the sons, Thomas, the eldest, had issue one daughter, Elizabeth, who married Colonel Paul, and died without issue. Neville, the second son, was a barrister in Dublin, »nd marrying Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Humphrey Jervais, of Dublin, had issue a daughter, who married Brinsley, Lord Newtown Butler, created Viscount Lanesborough.
John, the third son, died unmarried : he was Bishop of Cloyne, and afterwards of Raphoe, and his will is dated January 30,1710. He left considerable sums to public charities, and to improve several churches, and his houses in Dublin were left to the Blue Coat Hospital, and other public institutions. He left £200 to make a north and south aisle to Raphoe Church; £120 to raise the steeple of the Cathedral in Kilkenny; and the Church at Youghal, and the Cathedral at Cloyne, had each a small mark of his bounty, to build fonts. The Rev. Dr. Giles Pooley, the fourth son, had preferment in London, and left issue two daughters, one of which married Mr. Wittenoom, and left several children. Robert, the fifth son, was a commissioner of Excise, and died single. Of the three daughters, Elizabeth died -without issue, Frances married Sir Richard Hull, and Catherine married Daniel Molyneux, of Ballymulvey, in the county of Longford, esq. by whom she had three sons: viz. Pooley Molyneux, esq. to whom Mr. Hull left his house at Hammersmith for his Ufa, and who died in 1772, the same year with Mr. Hull; Thomas and Adam, who died unmarried. The daughters were, Elizabeth, Mary, and Dorothy, the eldest of which married the Rev. Samuel Shuldham, and had issue two sons, viz. Samuel and Molyneux ; the former of whom inherited the estates of his uncle Pooley Molyneux, but dying without issue, they came to his brother Molyneux, created Lord Shuldham.
page 122* note a See Macariae Exoidium, edited by John C. O'Callaghan, for the Irish Archæological Society, note, p. 339.
page *123 note a On an exact review here, the army was found to consist of 36,000 English, Dutch, French, Danes and Brandenburghers, all well appointed in every respect. (Harris's Life of William III. p. 261.)
page *123 note b Moyra pass, now known as Ravensdale, a noted defile leading into Ulster, and frequently contended for during Tyrone's rebellion.
page 124* note a Two families of the name of Aldworth have been raised to the peerage, and both have abandoned this name for others. One is the Viscounts Doneraile, as mentioned in the note p. 4, and the other the Lords Braybrooke. The latter are said to have been a Berkshire family; the former, to which Captain Aldworth here mentioned belonged, are descended from Richard Aldworth of Stowood in Oxfordshire, whose younger son, sir Richard Aldworth, obtained from King James I. a grant of the manor of Newmarket in the county of Cork, but died without issue in 1629. His elder brother William had a son, another sir Richard, who inherited this large estate, and was father of Boyle Aldworth, mentioned in the note p. 8.
page 124* note b Secretary of State to King William.
page 122 note a The buff coat worn by William on the eve of the battle is now in the possession of Robert Thompson, esq. of Ravensdale. It is perforated at the spot next the shoulder in which King William received his wound. The dimensions of the coat prove that William, was a man of small stature. Ulster Journal of Archæology, Appendix, 1856, p. 91, note.
page 123 note a Harris says that this disposition of the troops by the advice of the Earl, was grounded upon the example of Cæsar at the battle of Pharsalia.
page 124 note a The death of Schomherg is variously accounted for. Some say that a party of the enemy's horse, endeavouring to escape through the village of Old Bridge, met him there and killed him with a pistol-shot. Others, that he was shot by a trooper who had deserted from his own regiment about a year before. (Excidium Macariæ, by O'Callaghan, p. 359.) Harris says that he was attacked by fifteen or sixteen of King James's guards, who were returning to the main body after the slaughter of their companions, which Cambon's regiment perceiving, rashly fired at the enemy, and shot the Duke through the neck, of which he instantly expired. (Life of William III. p. 269). Shortly after, Dr. Walker was mortally wounded in the belly.
page 124 note b Colonel Caillimotte is buried near the gate of Mr. Coddington's demesne, whose plantations obscure a considerable portion of the battle-field, particularly opposite the fords. (Wild's Boyne and Blackwater).
page 126 note a Afterwards Archbishop of Dublin: the subject of the sermon was “On the power and wisdom of the providence of God in protecting his people and defeating their enemies.”
page 126 note b Anthony Dopping, D.D. translated to this see 14th January 1681, from Kildare. He was one of the seven prelates who remained in Ireland during these troubled times. The names of the other prelates were, Michael, Archbishop of Armagh; Edward, Bishop of Cork and Ross; Thomas, Bishop of Ossory; Simon, Bishop of Limerick; John, Bishop of Killaloe; and Hugh, Bishop of Waterford. (Harris, vol. i. p. 517).
page 126 note c Simon Digby, D.D. just mentioned, was translated to Elphin, 12 January, 1691.
page 137 note a Sir John Lanier commanded at the Boyne the Queen's Regiment of Horse, now the First Dragoon Guards.
page 139 note a This account is confirmed by Mr. D'Alton in his “King James's Irish Army List:” he says “A Captain Barret was taken prisoner at the siege of Limerick. The attainders of 1691 include this officer, described as John Barret, of Dublin, esq. and also of Castlemore, county of Cork. At Chichester House, John Barret claimed and was allowed a long term of years subsisting in certain estates (of Colonel John Barret, who represented Mallow in 1689). The fee thereof was subsequently granted, partly to Sir John Meade, of Ballintober, Knight, and to Sir Mathew Deane, Knight, both of whom, were creditors of the Colonel to a large amount.” p. 866.
page 140 note a Major Margetson was son of Dr. James Margetson, Archbishop of Armagh. He married Alice, daughter of William Caulfeild, first Viscount Charlemont ; and she married secondly George Lord Carpenter.
page 142 note a Mr. Macaulay decides, between two contradictory statements, that this resolution was caused by heavy rains. The Dean's silence on this point, though he mentions heavy rain on the 25th and on the ninth of the following month, suggests a different conclusion. Harris (Life of William III., p. 288,) says it was caused by the repulse, the scarcity of ammunition, and the approaching wet season. Colonel Bellingham indeed attributes it to the rain alone, which he says fell heavily “these two days past.” This gentleman is particular in giving the state of the weather during the campaign. See his diary in Playfair's Family Antiquity, vol. vii. appendix, page cxxx.
page 145 note a This was Patrick Sarsfield, styled “Earl of Lucan ;” of whom so much has been written. His family appear seated at Sarsfieldstown so early as 1364. But it was William Sarsfield, Mayor of Dublin, who became Sir William Sarsfield of Lucan, and founder of the eminence of this family. He was great-great-grandfather of Patrick. Patrick's sister Frances married Dominick Sarsfield, Viscount Kilmallock, of an ancient family in the city of Cork, but not (so far as appears) related to the Lucan branch.
page 148 note a Cork was anciently called Corkmor, or Great Cork, from which it is probable there was then a town on the lands now called Corkbeg, or Little Cork, just within the entrance of the harbour. Many considerable towns were destroyed by the Irish during the wars of York and Lancaster.
page 149 note a The Cove, oftener called “Cove,” is mentioned by Smith (1750) as a village inhabited by seamen and revenue officers. By strangers the “Cove of Cork “has been understood to mean Cork Harbour. In 1848 the Queen visited Cork, and was prevailed on by the inhabitants of Cove to give to their town the name of “Queenstown;” its increase in size and importance producing a jealousy of the mother city and a desire to be more distinguished from it, though it is in a great degree supported by the resort of citizens of Cork in the summer months. It has however become a place of commerce. “The Cove “was on the south shore of Inismore or “the great island,” called also “the Island of Barrymore “and “Barry's Island.” In 1638 David Earl of Barrymore made a lease to one Astwood of the lands of Ballyvilloon, otherwise called “the Cove,” “the Cove ;” but it is now flat ground, doubtless made artificially. From this place towards the west there was lately a row of mean cabins and cottages which the late Viscount Midleton, in prosecution of intended improvements, demolished. But it is towards the east that the town mainly extended, the most easterly part seeming the oldest, while on Ballyvilloon is springing up a very handsome quarter. The above Edmond Cotter, who possessed the Cove, was father of Sir James Cotter, a military partizan of King James in the wars of which this Journal treats. Edmond is styled of Barry's Island in 1627, though he afterwards resided elsewhere. The family seem to have long resided in this island, and were called MacCotter. In a deed of 1573, relating to lands in the Great Island, is mention of Gerald son of William (juvenis) Mao Coter. It is witnessed by James McCotter and Edmond Boy (yellow) McCotter. In another deed of 1572, relating to lands in the same island, is mention of James son of Maurice McCothir. In 1529 Mauricius McCottyr occurs as witness to a deed. Another branch of the Cotters were of Coppingerstown Castle—in Irish “Ballyeopiner.” See note, p. 95, where this name appears with the “mac ;” but subsequently, in inquisitions p.m., this is omitted. Sir James L. Cotter, Bart, is in possession of a letter from the Duke of Tyrconnel to the above Sir James Cotter, respecting the conduct of the war. There were also some documents from which it appeared that Sir James used great but unavailing exertions to raise new levies among the “Creaghts,” a sort of wandering Irish who lived in moveable wicker huts, of whom a full account may be seen in the Kilkenny Archæological Journal for Nov. 1855. For his early career see Ludlow's Memoirs, pp. 428, 419, and 398, and Harris’ Life of King William, Appendix, p. xxxiv.
page 150 note a Shandon Castle on the north occupied a considerable eminence over the city. Lower down the hill are the remains of a very thick wall which perhaps may have constituted one of these “new forts.” A few years ago part of it being undermined fell on and crushed a house beneath it, and killed a woman within. The ground which it bounded was sold about 1730, by one Roche, to the ancestor of the Warren family, by the name of a piece of ground “called Skiddough Castle.”
page 150 note b The ruins of this ancient church, with its venerable cemetery, still remain. They are situated on very high ground on the north side of the river Lee, and command a magnificent view of the surrounding country.
page 150 note c This must be understood of the bridge across the “Bishop's Brook,” between the lands of Carrigrohan and Inchigaggin, for until lately there was no bridge across the Lee near Carrigrohan.
page 150 note d This piece of water, which is situated on a hill, contains about twelve acres, but from the lowness of its shores seems much larger. It is the resort of skaters from the city on the rare occurrence of hard frost. The Corporation of Cork have lately assumed a property in the Lough, and in another public commonage near it called Gallows Green, formerly the place of execution of criminals, and have set part of the latter to a society of monks, who have built on it a large school-house, from a design by one of their body, which has much architectural merit. On the other part of the green there formerly stood two stone pillars, used as a gallows when the gaol (over the North gate) was within the city.
page 151 note a “St. Bride's church stood where the Cat is now. The walls of the church stood on the south side of the Cat, towards the road. There is no appearance of the ruins of the church. The ruins did appear before the last wars, about the year 1664.” (Bishop Downs’ MS. Journal.) Perhaps the following passage from Du Cange may throw some light on the meaning of the word “cat” as applied to a fort: “CATH. Vineas machinas bellicas, quibus itur ad murum suffodiendum, quas Bononienses vocant’ cattos.’ Catti ergo sunt vineæ sive plutei. Sub quibus miles in morem felis, quem Cattum vulgo dicimus, in subsissis aut insidiis latet.” See also O'Brien's Irish Dictionary, sub voce Cat. Cat Fort is now only a small barrack.
page 152 note a This fort is called Elizabeth Fort. Macaulay says,” The old fort where the Irish made the hardest fight lies in ruins.” This is a very erroneous statement. A horizontal course of slightly battered surface on the face of one of the bastions towards the bottom, which looks towards Catfort, and which has recently been repaired, was the only damage observable. There are barracks within the fort, which are frequently occupied. One of the curtains (the south) has been removed to gain room, and the defences have been otherwise injured by alterations. But this must have been a strong place, and might have made a longer defence if its fate had not been involved with that of the comparatively defenceless city below it. It was delivered up under the treaty for the surrender of the city.
page 152 note b The Mitre was probably a tavern. It is mentioned in Bishop Down's MS. Journal (1700). He says that “The west side of the street coming from the South Bridge, and up to the Mitre, and also the north side of the fort (Elizabeth's), belongs to this parish” (St. Finbar's).
page 152 note c Both Story and the Dean call this the steeple, but it may be doubted whether it was not the ancient “round tower” which stood in the churchyard, for this was nearer to the fort, as appears from the plan of Cork in Pacata Hibernia, where “the round or watch tower “is placed eastward of the cathedral, but westward of the church of St. Mary de Nard, round the site of which it is ascertained that the fort was built, while it appears that the steeple was westward of the cathedral, and, like the tower, stood by itself, as appears too in an older map of 1545. When Boullaye le Gouz was here the round tower was (as he tells us in a work published in 1653) more than 100 feet high. It is possible that the Dean's military ardour may have been the cause of the destruction of this interesting relic of antiquity, for we learn from other sources that the fire returned from the fort shook the steeple exceedingly. There is not a vestige of it now remaining above ground. Story's map, in many respects very incorrect, shews neither steeple nor round tower apart from the cathedral, and this gives some ground for supposing that both these separate structures were removed before the siege of Cork. Smith's expression, that “some years ago an ancient round tower stood in the churchyard a little detached from the church,” suggests a different opinion. But it afterwards appears (vol. ii. p. 207) that he knew nothing of it but from Ware's account. In a small plan of Cork on the margin of the map of Munster, in “Pacata Hibernia,” it is represented as tapering from the bottom to a point at the top, and called “the spire:” and it is placed towards the west of the churchyard, which seems to have been done as an expedient to bring the structure within the boundary line; for in a plan of the city in the library of Trinity College, of the date of 1602, and in which also it is called “the spire,” and depicted truly like a round tower, though perhaps a little too tapering, it is placed some distance to the south-east of the cathedral, about the spot where some peculiar stones and sculpture have been found, and which is popularly said to have been the grave of St. Finbar. There is no tradition as to the exact site of the tower.
page 153 note a There was a mill here in very ancient times. King Edward III. confirmed a grant made by the corporation of Cork to William son of Walter Droup, of eighty perches of ground in length, and two perches in breadth, in Cork and in Dungarvan, in the suburb of Cork, lying from the thread (filo) of water of the Lee, to the furthest part of the stone column of the middle bridge of the said city, together with the watercourse flowing and reflowing through the said ground, to build a mill there. (See Rolls of Chancery, p. 182.) This mill is in Fishshamble Lane, and is still in active operation. But, judging by inspection of the localities, the measurement of 80 perches seems a misprint for 30.
It appears from the foregoing and from other authorities, that the original Danish City of Cork did not, as is oommonly supposed, occupy the whole space which was afterwards surrounded by walls, but only about half of it: and that all that portion northward of the above millstream was a suburb called Dungarvan, which comprised the present parish of St. Peter's; and this agrees with a record mentioned by Smith, vol. i. p. 74S note. Dungarvan is men - tioned as a suburb so lately as the reign of Elizabeth, though within the walls.
page 153 note b This had been an abbey of Augustinian monks. Smith mentions two dates assigned for its foundation, viz. about 1420, and in the reign of Edward I. The latter must be the more correct, for among the ancient deeds belonging to T. R. Sarsfield, Esq. is a conveyance from Walter Newelond and Margery Forester his wife to David le Blound of a messuage in the street of St. John the Baptist, near Cork, extending in length from the said street on the south to the way which leads from the street of St. John the Evangelist to the house of the friars of the order of St. Augtistin on the north, and in breadth from the common lane leading from the street of St. John the Baptist to the sea (tide way?) on the east to a certain curtilage of the said friars on the west. This bears date Tuesday next after the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the 16th year of King Edward II. and is witnessed by John Galagre mayor and William Droup and Adam Newlons bailiffs of Cork, Walter de Kerdif, Perceval Vincent, Adam Reych, John FitzHenry, Richard Reych, and Walter Waldingst, One of the seals is gone : the other represents two keys joined like a pair of tongs. When Smith wrote the abbey was used as a sugar-house, and it so continued till 1799, when it was burned. A small street of houses was afterwards built on the site by Lieut. Philip Donovan, and named Donovan Street, but, falling into other hands, it has since obtained the name of Cumberland Street. The descent of Lieut. Philip Donovan of Donovan Street from the chiefsof that name has been published with Dr. O'Donovan's translation of the Annals of the Pour Masters. The tower and a wall containing some small pointed windows are all that remain of the abbey.
page 154 note a Dr. Edward Wetenhall, a native of Lichfield in Staffordshire, and educated at Westminster school under the famous Dr. Busby.
page 154 note b Mr. D'Alton, in his lately-published “King James's Army List,” mentions several of this name: Donagh McCarty, Captain in the Earl of Clancarthy's regiment; Donagh McCarty, Lieutenant in Colonel Justin McCarty's regiment ; and at page 10 a Captain Daniel Macarty. The Earl of Clancarthy was the head of this family. Cormac Oge McCarthy wascreated Baron of Blarney and Viscount Muskery in 1628. His son Donagh was raised to the earldom of Clancarthy ; he married a sister of the Duke of Ormond, and was grandfather of the above Earl, whose regiment was taken prisoners at the surrender of Cork.
The male descendants of the first of these lords have become extinct. Their principal castle (Blarney) is a ruin in the midst of fine old plantations, the property of the Jeffreyes family, as the well known song intimates:—
‘Tis Lady Jeffreyes that owns that station,
Like Alexander or Helen fair,
There's no commander in all this nation
In emulation can with her compare.
This lady, popularly called Lady Jeffreyes from being the sister of the Lord Chancellor Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare, was a person of most masculine and enterprising character, which is wittily expressed in the above verses. She is said to have persuaded the grand jury of the County of Cork to build a bridge near Blarney, in a different situation from the old one, in order to form an ornamental object, and, when the bridge was built, she applied to have the course of the river changed and brought under it. But this was too much, and so a handsome bridge now stands in the middle of a field.
But to return to the McCarthys. This great family, formerly Kings of South Munster, had many branches, who all fell into obscurity in consequence of the forfeitures, except one, that of Carrignavar. The first Viscount Muskery had two brothers, Teige McCarthy of Aglish, and Daniel McCarty of Carrignavar. Teige had a son Dermod, whose descendants are said to have continued till lately, and to have fallen to a very low station, and to have not long ago become extinct ; but this last must be uncertain. Daniel McCarty, the youngest brother of Lord Muskery, built the castle of Carrignavar in 1616, and died about 1658. His last wife, whom he married long after the rebellion of 1641, applied to the Court of Claims in 1662, and was allowed dower of his lands, which shews that he was adjudged an innocent papist. He appears to have been ancestor of the subsequent family of Carrignavar, whose pedigree is printed in Burke's “History of the Commoners:” yet, strange to say, the next possessor of Carrignavar seems to have been his nephew Donagh, first Earl of Clancarthy, for a Daniel's son Cormac, otherwise called Charles, held it by a lease from that Earl for 280 years from 1663, at a nominal rent of 11l. a-year, though, if heir of Daniel, he ought to have been as well entitled to the lands (which were very extensive) as his stepmother to dower of them. Yet, though he made no claim to these, he in 1662 claimed and was allowed other large estates which were expressly devised to himself by the will of his maternal grandfather Stephen Myagh (FitzGarret) of Cork, merchant; all which circumstances, coupled with this, that the Carrignavar estate was not forfeited or regranted, suggest that the Earl may have succeeded to it as heir at law of his uncle Daniel. Nevertheless, in his will in 1665, he makes Charles of Carrignavar the next in remainder to his estates after Dermod of Aglish, calling the latter however his “cousin-german,” and not the former. These apparent inconsistencies have been attempted to be accounted for in several ways, which, considering the commencement of the lease of 1663, are not satisfactory. The above Charles was called Spaniach or Spaniard. The estates being settled on his son's marriage, he forfeited in 1688 only a life-interest. In a late publication on Irish music by Dr. Petrie and Mr. Curry, the ancient clan march of the McCartys is given, with a translation of Irish words adapted to it, called Corromacke Spaniach Carrignavar, and describing the family as “the generous race who never hoarded their wealth.” The above rent of 11l. was forfeited in 1688 by the Earl, and subsequently purchased by the Carrignavar family, who also acquired by marriage with an heiress the estates of the M'Carthys of Cloghrbe. But all their estates were lately sold by the Incumbered Estates Court. They had produced 7000l. a year.
page 156 note a This latter marsh now forms the parish of Saint Paul's, and the English assailants were approaching it through another marsh more to the south, where the Duke of Grafton was killed. The marshes were then separated from one another by an inlet or tideway afterwards filled up, and now forming Patrick Street.
page 156 note b Collins (Peerage) says that the Duke of Grafton received a wound with a shot which broke two of his ribs, of which he died at Cork on the 9th of October following, and that his corpse was brought to England, and buried at Euston in Suffolk. The ground on which he was killed is to this day called Grafton's Alley. Mr. Croker says the shot was fired by a blacksmith from a forge in Old Post-office Lane, by which he must mean the place now so called.